Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 20 January 2010

Before she was AbFab...

    Girl gamers on Xbox Live get hassled a lot. One of Reibo's regular crew gets insulted a lot while she plays. She invariably tries to be friendly with everyone in the lobby, but she's cursed with skill on CoD, WaW, and Modern Warfare 2. (In MW2, her win/loss is in the high 4s., IIRC. Mine, for purposes of comparison and ego deflation, is 2.23 in MW2.)
    Apparently, a lot of insecure guys really, really can't stand having their asses virtually kicked by a girl. As a big fan of Vasquez from Aliens, Alice from Resident Evil, and Selene from Underworld, I fantasize about having my ass kicked by a girl, especially with high heels on. Some Internet Tough Guys, tho, have issues with having their clocks cleaned by a female. They tend to vent their frustrations in the post-game lobby. Some girl gamers, OTOH, turn to YouTube to vent their bewbies frustrations.

I'm going straight to Hell. In a flaming chariot.

    Most interesting was the link's name change. This young lady had originally posted her vid with the title Modern Warfare 2 + Girl Gamer. When the sun came up the next AM, she had retitled it Modern Warfare 2 + Girl w/ Boobs. Of course, no one on YouTube uses the word "boobs" to generate hits, right? On to the links:

• YouTube: SpecOps Bomb Squad teddy bear easter egg. FFA Wasteland with Barrett and SPAS-12. He went 30-2, with really good quickscope work with the Barrett .50 cal. Smart use of killstreak items, too, with Sentry Gun, Harrier, and Pavelow. Lucky grenade launcher bounce kill. IWNet gameplay with victim's view of aimbot. Dude says there were two aimbotters raping his team! Tactical insertion plus claymore exploit. Humor: What if you don't use cold-blooded? Overlooked: Airbornlama's Best CoD4 and MW2 Plays of 2009.
  
• Follow up on yesterday's item about the negative XP exploit: It apparently involves a modded Xbox. Here's a YouTube link of an apparent private match using the JTAG modded Xbox 360. The JTAG mod apparently also enables an XP hack. 
• The guy who revealed the possible MW2 DLC has had his gamertag banned, his Xbox 360 console banned, his YouTube vid yanked, and he's been threatened with legal action by fourzerotwo as he shows on this YouTube vid.
• Destructoid feature: What Sledgehammer Games (developer formed by Activision possibly for work on Call of Duty titles) is, stands for.
• CrispyGamer: I played D&D before it was cool. And so I did. :D
  

    More Gaming Links:

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 "Squad Rush" game mode video.
  
• Bioshock 2 available for pre-order on Steam.
• Halo: Reach screenshots (while they last).
  
• Joystiq: Kane and Kynch: Dog Days first impressions.
• Kotaku: Avatar disappoints. Best Video Game Cutscenes of 2009.
• Edge Online: Serious Sam: The First Encounter review. BioWare unveils Mass Effect 2's Cerberus Network. How it works.
  
• Bobby Kotick's moment of clarity: "Our Spider-Man titles sucked." Joystiq has a nice round-up of links explaining why Bobby Kotick sucks just as bad.
  
• GameRevolution Bayonetta review. And GamesRadar's video: Bayonetta's Sexiest Moves (in Slow Motion).
  
• Dark Void review round-up: Ars Technica; CVG; GamesRadar; IGN; GamePro; 1Up; Shacknews; GiantBomb; Blend Games; CrispyGamer; Kotaku; GameRevolution; G4TV; Entertainment Weekly; TheHDRoom; USAToday. The Crap-o-Meter™ over at Metacritic is 60% currently.
• G4TV's Dark Void Launch Primer. G4's Daily Fix for 19 January 2010 with the luscious Jessica Chobot.
• Serious Sam: The First Encounter reviewed on G4TV.
  
• South Australian AG still pissed off that gamers don't like him.
  

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Communist China pulls 2D Avatar from theaters -- because it's too successful.
• Slashdot: What does CBS have against Jack Benny?
• Humor: RedLetterMedia YouTube channel. Best. Phantom. Menace. Review. Ever. Hilarious and true.
  
• Comics Alliance: Make your own working Star Trek phaser. (Thanks, Digg.)
  

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